- Stacy Schiff
Infobox Person
image_size = 150px
name = Stacy Madeleine Schiff
birth_date = Birth date and age|1961|10|26|mf=y
birth_place =Adams, Massachusetts
occupation = AuthorStacy Madeleine Schiff (born
October 26 ,1961 [cite web | url = http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=1422790 | title = Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff] ) is aPulitzer Prize -winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for "The New York Times ".Biography
Schiff is a graduate of
Phillips Academy preparatory school, and earned her B.A. degree fromWilliams College in 1982. She was a Senior Editor atSimon & Schuster until1990 . Her essays and articles have been published in "The New Yorker ", "The New York Times Book Review " and "The Times Literary Supplement ".Schiff has received fellowships from the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and theNational Endowment for the Humanities . [cite web | url = http://www.lapl.org/events/aloud/mar-apr_05/s-schiff.html | title = ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions (Los Angeles Central Library)]Schiff won the
2000 Pulitzer Prize for her biography ofVera Nabokov , wife and muse of "Lolita " and "Pale Fire " authorVladimir Nabokov . She was also a finalist for the1995 Pulitzer Prize for "Saint-Exupéry: A Biography" aboutAntoine de Saint Exupéry .Currently a guest columnist at "
The New York Times ", Schiff resides inNew York City andEdmonton, Alberta .Notable articles
Schiff wrote a "New Yorker" profile of
Wikipedia ("Know It All" column,July 31 ,2006 )cite web
url = http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact
title = Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?
accessdate = 2007-03-06
last = Schiff
first = Stacy
authorlink =
date =July 24 2006
work = Know It All
publisher =The New Yorker
archiveurl =
archivedate =
quote =] , the correction of which in February, 2007 sparked theEssjay controversy . [cite news
url=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS01/703060446/1008
title=Wikipedia editor who posed as professor is Ky. dropout: Man resigns post after controversy
author=Andrew Wolfson
publisher=Louisville Courier-Journal
date=March 6 2007
accessdate=2007-03-07]Bibliography
Books
*:"(Nominated for the 1994
Pulitzer Prize )"
*:"(Winner of 2000Pulitzer Prize )"
*:"(Winner of theGeorge Washington Book Prize in 2006)":"(Published in the UK as" cite book | author = Schiff, Stacy | title = Dr Franklin Goes to France | publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | location = | year = | pages = | isbn = 0-7475-6923-1")"
* "(In preparation)"elected essays and articles
*" [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/opinion/13schiff.html Desperately Seeking Susan] ." "New York Times",
October 13 ,2006 .
*cite news | author=Schiff, Stacy |title=Founding Chauvinist Pig? | work=New York Times |date=2007-10-14 |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E3D9163CF937A25753C1A9619C8B63 | accessdate = 2007-10-24:"(Review of" cite book | author = Jon Kukla | title = Mr. Jefferson's Women | publisher = Knopf | date =2007-10-09 | isbn = 1400043247")"References
External links
* [http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/sschiff1.htm "An Interview with Stacy Schiff"] by Suellen Stringer-Hye, published in April 1999 by Random House.
Persondata
NAME= Schiff, Stacy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Schiff, Stacy Madeleine
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American Female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH=October 26 ,1961
PLACE OF BIRTH=Adams, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=
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